The art of minorities : cultural representation in museums of the Middle East and North Africa / edited by Virginie Rey.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : Engaging with "minority" voices : cultural representation in museums of the Middle East and North Africa / Virginie Rey -- The ethnographisation of Syrian Society at the Azem Palace of Damascus : from compact minorities to toponymical identity / Virginie Rey and Stephen Pascoe -- "The performance of servitude" : gendered and racialised representations of citizenship at the Bahrain National Museum / John Thabiti Willis -- Minority audience : The Oudayas Museum and the manufacturing of elitism in Moroccan museums / Francesca de Micheli -- Lodges of debate : Two museumised Sufi tekkes in Anatolia / Lucía Cirianni Salazar -- Museums, migrant labourers and ethnic spatiality in the United Arab Emirates / Sarina Wakefield -- Paving the way to a Lebanese national narrative : empathy at the Armenian genocide orphans' Aram Bezikian Museum in Lebanon / Rita Kalindjian and Rhéa Dagher -- A national museum for a people without a land : The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit / Zoe Holman -- Egypt's Coptic Museum : from patriarchal to national / Dina Bakhoum -- Branding convivencia : Jewish museums and the reinvention of a Moroccan Andalus in Essaouira / Aomar Boum -- Is Tunisia ready for a Jewish museum? Perspectives on the current debates surrounding the status of Jewish heritage in my country / Habib Kazdaghli -- "Do I even exist?" Kurdish diaspora artists reflect on imaginary exhibits in a Kurdistan museum / Vera Eccarius-Kelly -- Islamic State's archive of the digital infinite : imagined museums, new media and conflict capitalism / Amanda Rogers -- Afterword : minoritised memory and affect in a museology of disaster / Katazyna Pieprzak.

"Explores the representation of minority cultures in museums of the Middle East and North Africa. How are issues related to identity representation negotiated in Middle Eastern and North African museums? Can museums provide a suitable canvas for minorities to express their voice? Can narratives change and stereotypes be broken and, if so, what kind of identities are being deployed? Against the backdrop of the revolutionary upheavals that have shaken the region in recent years, the contributors to this volume interrogate a range of case studies from across the region -- examining how museums engage inclusion, diversity and the politics of minority identities. They bring to the fore the region's diversity and sketches a 'museology of disaster' in which minoritised political subjects regain visibility"--

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Virginie Rey is Research Associate at the Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the University of California, Irvine.